"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."

-- Jules Renard

#Men Quotes #Giving Quotes #Dinner Quotes

“No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works. Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that they are doing nothing except erasing their magic.”
“Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.”
“Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is certain to take, and with lures of ostensible profit they await him in strength.”
“Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. â€¦ Why canâ€™t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?”
“People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I love you, love your work.' And then the next sentence is, 'I loved your brother.' John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing.”
“I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.”
“Don't stop with your first draft.”

Source : Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger (1978). “The Elements of Programming Style”, Computing McGraw-Hill
“As long as I have my legs and commitment to the team, then I'll keep playing.”

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